Progress
Fair progress but acceleration needed
Fair progress but acceleration needed

Desired direction: Increase

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Headline data

(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
Year Value Units Series
2016 51.7 % Proportion of the total agricultural population with property rights or secure rights to agricultural land
2009 54.5 % Proportion of the total agricultural population with property rights or secure rights to agricultural land
2013 57.5 % Proportion of the total agricultural population with property rights or secure rights to agricultural land

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Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
Target

5.a Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
Goal

5- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Definition

Proportion of heads of agricultural holdings, to the total number of agricultural workers and proportion of female heads of agricultural holdings to the total number of heads of agricultural holdings, by type of tenure.
Theoretical formula

Proportion of heads of agricultural holdings, to the total number of agricultural workers

\[PPOA_{head}^{t} = \frac{TEA^{t}}{POA^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$TEA^{t} =$ heads of agricultural holdings in year $t$

$POA^{t} =$ people employed in agriculture in year $t$


proportion of female heads of agricultural holdings to the total number of heads of agricultural holdings, by type of tenure

\[PTEA_{women}^{t} = \frac{TEA_{women}^{t}}{TEA^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$TEA_{women}^{t} =$ female heads of agricultural holdings in year $t$ by type of tenure

$TEA^{t} =$ heads of agricultural holdings in year $t$ by type of tenure
Available disaggregations

Type of tenure

Sex

Province
Frequency

Irregular / Aperiodic
Observations

Sub-indicator 5.a.1 (a) is a prevalence measure. It measures the prevalence of people in the agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, disaggregated by sex.

Sub-indicator 5.a.1 (b) focuses on gender parity, measuring the extent to which women are disadvantaged in ownership or secure rights over agricultural land.
Data last updated 2025/05/08
Metadata last updated 2025/06/18

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

Indicator 5.a.1 aims to monitor the gender balance on ownership/secure rights over agricultural land. Subindicator (a) and sub-indicator (b) are based on the same data and they monitor ownership/rights from two different angles.

While sub-indicator (a) uses the total male/female agricultural population as reference population, and it tells us how many male/female own land, sub-indicator (b) focuses on the agricultural population with land ownership/secure rights, and it tells us how many of them are women.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator complies with United Nations metadata.
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 5-a-1.pdf
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